New Moon Ensemble
By Dhananji Rathnayake | Photos Mark Mattos More than 300 people gathered in Congress Square Park...
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Stacey Warner
Two years after the fall of Kabul: the story of one Afghan family in Maine
By Kathreen Harrison When Babrak and Paikar Jalali pushed their way through surging crowds...
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Avoiding virtual theft
By Georges Budagu Makoko Yibutse gukinga bukeye or “Some people...
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Refugee women adopt climate-smart agriculture
By Violet Ikong In 2015, about a year after she fled South Sudan’s civil war and arrived in the...
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September is Cholesterol Screening Awareness Month
By Amy Harris Cholesterol screening is a quick and affordable way to get a helpful...
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Minter artwork exhibited, celebrated at Farnsworth
On August 24, Daniel Minter delivered the annual Stephen May and Kathryn B. Wilson Lecture at the...
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Military junta in Niger to prosecute ousted President Mohamed Bazoum
General Abdourahamane Tchiani and the presidential guards who staged a coup that overthrew...
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Does war loom again in Ethiopia?
On August 13, an airstrike killed 26 people and injured 50 more in Finote Selam, a town in western...
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World Bank won’t give Uganda funds due to anti-LGBT law
The World Bank announced in early August that they will provide no more funding for projects in...
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I’m Your Neighbor Books
All Photos Mark Mattos unless otherwise noted I’m Your Neighbor Books is a Portland-based...
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2023 Black Excellence Awards
Photos by Mark Mattos (L – R) Adilah Muhammad, Julian Rowand, Carla Hunt, Georges Budagu...
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A long view on 21 years of change
By Georges Budagu Makoko Life is unpredictable: you never know where it will take you and how...
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Taking a Knee for Change
By Jean Noel Mugabo | Photos by Mark Mattos “Contributing makes me feel like I’m...
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Baha’i Mainer honors rights of women with #OurStoryIsOne
Photos by Mark Mattos In 1979, the year Islamic revolutionaries overthrew the Shah of Iran,...
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Freeport schools welcome 67 new asylum seeking students
By Kai Small Following the transition of the Portland Expo on August 16 from temporary...
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